Textile fragment with bands of dotted patterns and vine
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of dotted patterns and vine
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown; with remains of stitching in cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
29 x 17.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 13 threads/cm (thread count) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.533
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Catalogue text
Bands with patterns made up from dots; one has a wavy line representing a vine with stylized leaves added, another has a row of ?stylized flowers made up from a cluster of dots and a single stroke which might represent the stem. Additional bands are composed of lines of dots; the fragment is similar to Cat. no. 525 [EA1990.532]. The pattern is white against a red or brown background.
Remains of stitching, the purpose of which is uncertain. The reverse is saturated with dye.In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)
Further reading
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), no. 526 on pp. 156-157 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 156 fig. 526
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